Now added to the RemitDATA portfolio will be IF Technologies' full breadth of services and solutions, including HealtheReports, a comparative data solution that delivers pricing, by provider, to empower insurers and their members to find the best healthcare value; and Episode of Care Analytics, a solution that provides insight to drive significant savings and empowers insurers to lower their costs as well as costs for employers and their members.

To resolve these analytic problems, we decided to approximate an episode of care analytic methodology by using intervals of care defined as all services provided by one physician to one patient for one diagnostic category during fixed intervals of time.

Starting in late summer and focusing initially on commercial PPO patients in Los Angeles and Orange counties, the project is designed to demonstrate the feasibility of episode of care payments for total knee or hip replacements.

Bundling payment for services that patients receive across a single episode of care, such as heart bypass surgery or a hip replacement, is one way to encourage doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to work together to better coordinate care for patients both when they are in the hospital and after they are discharged.

We propose that an episode of care can serve as an appropriate time horizon for pharmacoeconomic studies for limited or episodic conditions, such as acute migraine or peptic ulcer disease (Schulman, Yabroff, and Glick 1995).

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